[clug] Learning C in a Unix environment

Andrew Pollock andrew-linux at andrew.net.au
Fri Nov 28 09:52:36 EST 2003


Hi,

I'm interested in learning C in a Unix environment. Do they still teach C at
Uni, or is all Java these days?

Are there any other readily available courses that teach it (i.e. standalone
TAFE courses or something along those lines)?

I already know general programming concepts, and can program in more
script-like languages like Perl, PHP, VBScript, and I can generally make
some sense out of reading C code, depending on it's complexity, but I'd like
to be able to write C so I can contribute to Open Source projects, and I'd
actually like to understand the ins and outs of how the C library works, and
how shared objects hang together and what symbols are and all that jazz.

I also know Linux quite well from a Sysadmin perspective, and from
reasonably low-level debugging, so I'm after something that doesn't start at
the beginner's level of "this is an if statement, this is a loop, etc etc".

Even if anyone can suggest some good books aimed at my level. There seem to
be a few GNU books that look interesting...

Andrew



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